'What is me?' : Self and Society in the Poetry of Thomas Hoccleve
- Author / Editor
- Patterson, Lee.
'What is me?' : Self and Society in the Poetry of Thomas Hoccleve
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 23: 437-70, 2001.
- Description
- Examines the "uncomfortable sense of selfhood" recorded in Hoccleve's works, a sense of an individual lost within the press of responsibilities. Patterson remarks on Chaucer's influence and suggests that the older poet was beyond conventional praise for Hoccleve, who regarded Chaucer as "an instance of a particular person" with an "inimitable appearance and manner."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.